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Google just announced a "Developer Verification" program for Android. Sounds harmless. It's not.

Starting September 2026:
• All developers must register with Google
• Must pay fees
• Must submit government ID
• Must surrender signing keys
• Unregistered apps won't install — even via sideloading

This turns Android into a closed platform identical to iOS.

More info: keepandroidopen.org

#KeepAndroidOpen #DMA #Android #DigitalRights #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Nihil 5d ago

Tuta 6d ago

Today is the day: The European Commission is expected to publish the EU Tech Sovereignty Package. 🇪🇺

And the demand is clear. When purchasing software products, European authorities must prioritize

- Open source
- Buy European

The Americans buy American, the Chinese buy Chinese, when will Europe start to support its own industry?

The EU Tech Sovereignty Package can be a turning point for #digital #sovereignty.

But will they be bold enough?

#OpenSourceFirst #DigitalSovereignty

Nihil 6d ago

AlternativeTo Jun 2

A self-hosted interface for chatting with local or API language models, running agents, searching the web, and managing docs, email, and calendar, with no telemetry. Fun fact: built by PewDiePie 👀👉 https://alternativeto.net/software/the-odysseus/about/

Nihil Apr 23

European Commission Apr 23

Books hold power!

They inform us, make us think... and question.

Reading has been shown to be good for health and wellbeing. It also improves academic performance, creativity, employability, and democratic participation.

Even so, literacy amongst adults is stagnating or declining in many European countries. Recent studies also show reading for pleasure is in decline.

So, what better day than World Book and Copyright Day to highlight some amazing European literature ➡️https://euprizeliterature.eu/

Nihil Mar 29

European Commission Mar 29

In the EU, healthcare is a public service, not a consumer product.

Our latest report shows how Europeans can benefit from it:

💶The average annual healthcare spend per person is €870
🏥68.4% rate their health as ‘very good’ or ‘good’

Full report ➡️ https://link.europa.eu/WHxcQM

Nihil Mar 28

LibreOffice Mar 28

As Open Document Format (ODF) is more widely adopted, it's becoming clear: THIS is the future. A fully open, documented and standardised format – unlike Microsoft's "Transitional" OOXML: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/27/odf-is-the-future-ooxml-is-the-past/

ODF is the future, OOXML is the past - TDF Community Blog

Whenever a user, a government, a school or a business chooses the format in which to store and exchange its digital documents, it is not merely making a technical decision, but is placing a bet on the kind of digital infrastructure on which it will depend in the future. In this sense, ODF and OOXML are not two equivalent options on the same shelf, but two radically different solutions: one geared towards a future of openness, interoperability and digital sovereignty, and the other towards a past of defending a vendor’s dominant market position through user lock-in. ODF: designed to be open and transparent Open Document Format was conceived from the outset to be an open standard. It was designed and developed by the community under the auspices of OASIS, and subsequently ratified by ISO, to be implemented by anyone, on any platform, without royalties, without hidden dependencies and without the permission of any single company. These are not trivial technical details, but a statement of political and economic strategy embedded within the format itself. ODF is based on a clean XML schema, easy to read even by non-technical users and reusable. Colour naming follows standard web conventions, and its architecture

TDF Community Blog

Nihil Mar 23

AlternativeTo Mar 23

Kagi Translate has launched “LinkedIn Speak”, allowing users to turn simple updates into satirical corporate posts with short sentences emphasizing personal growth, reflection, and achievement, and including hashtags and emojis for complete parody.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/kagi-translate-introduces-linkedin-speak-for-satirical-corporate-style-announcements/